Thembani Mthembo Dube's Journey of Political Quotations

1, 'Pluralism is good if its intentions are to liberate a people. Pluralism that is meant to undermine and compromise a revolution is dangerous and counter-revolutionary. The target of such pluralism is not to fight the oppressor but to confuse and disorientate the oppressed and heavily compromise a revolution. Muzorewa and his lot did such activities during the fight against a white settler regime of Rhodesia and the white settler was pulling the strings from behind. Beware of Zanu PF and its machinations' (Dec 2011)

2. 'All those who aspire to lead and be our leaders of today and tomorrow, should master the art of dancing on the floor as well as from the balcony' (Nov 2011)

3. 'Africa should never emulate the West with its own copycat Afrozone that Gaddaffi advocated. Africa should first go back to the drawing board and dismantle the colonial boundaries imposed on her by the rampaging and resource thirsty colonialists under the Scramble For Africa episode' (Nov 2011)

4. 'There is no political ideology that fails in life but it is men and women who are the cause of its failure!' (Nov 2011)

5. 'It must be said that Enos Nkala's interview with Lance Guma was punctuated with his intensely dramatic and breath-taking arrogance that equalled the arrogance of the late former president of Serbia, Slobodan Milosevic and his partner in crime, the former Bosnian Serb military chief, Gen. Ratko Mladic in the International Criminal Court of Justice at The Hague' (October 2011)

6. 'In any revolution, if cadres begin to champion activities that dismantle the walls of a revolution by any means possible, then what they are engaging in is nothing more than what is termed, 'counter-revolutionary' politics. There is a critical point where activities of revolutionaries reach a boiling point that puts them in a stand view of being seen as counter-revolutionaries. That is a very uncomfortable position to be in' (Sep 2011)

7. 'Freedom, justice and dignity do not come to those who sit on their laurels and religiously hope that things will change. Militancy achieves freedom, be it militancy in education, culture, economics and indeed activist politics. The oppressed need a huge buy -in and a huge dedication and a commitment to militant politics to counter the militancy of the aggressors and oppressors of our time to free themselves' (July 2011)

8. 'A few weeks ago a number of Matabeleland renegades stationed in the house of Zanu PF have come out of the woods with their guns blazing against their kith and kin calling them all sorts of demeaning names and deploying every negative label they have in their vocabulary against their own for daring to challenge the inequitable distribution of development in that country that has marginalized the region since 1980 as epitomised by the recent massive collapse of Bulawayo and its industries' (July 2011)

9.   Insecurity and fear are the greatest enemies of men. Overcoming them are the greatest gifts men can achieve. Fear is insecurity's partner in crime! The world is not a rat race for the continuously insecure and fearful but for those who conquer and overcome these twin towers of humanity's retrogressiveness. To be defined and seen as a progressive, you have to overcome insecurity and fear
( Jan 2011)

10. 'Responsible political leadership does not divide its supporters but unites them for a common purpose. Irresponsible political leadership thrives on division and chaos, giving itself the space to push the envelope of self-interest over and above the collective interests of its constituent. This is the cancer that needs urgent therapy in our politics' (April 2010)

11. 'Personal glory seeking and resource seeking behaviours including underhand deals has become a cancer in most Zimbabwean run organizations. What is up with people? 'Self-importance' and ' insecurity' of these characters who 'supposedly' run these organizations single handedly has become a joke' (Dec 2010)

12. 'What is hated by those of his kith and kin is not so much the propaganda he churns day in and day out against Zanu PF's perceived western enemies but his overzealous defence of a system that prides itself with cultural and social oppression, tribal and political hegemony, intellectual and educational strangulation of the entire peoples' of Matabeleland and Midland areas' (on Professor Jonathan Moyo) (July 2010)

13. 'To this day, the Gukurahundi genocide remains an albatross around Nkala's neck, his legacy and that of his Zanu PF comrades' (July 2010)

14. 'His (Enos Nkala) actions and that of his gang laid the foundation for the future mass raping, mass beating and mass carnage of his own people. He became a tool and agent of a long planned strategy to uproot Joshua Nkomo's perceived political powerbase through violence and mass murder of his perceived supporters' (July 2010)

15. 'Morgan Tsvangirai has made his party a carbon copy of Zanu PF in dealing with the leaders of the region from his party. If the truth can be told, Morgan's party is a mirror image of Zanu PF in every shape and form' (July 2010)

16. 'I am a rebel to the idea that politics is a game of numbers. It is a game of substance first and numbers second. In Africa it is always a game of tribal numbers first and no substance at all. We got to destroy this disease through restoration of African nations that existed before colonial boundaries were set up' (Nov 2007)